Modeling frameworks, methods and languages for computerizing small and medium-sized enterprises: Review and proposal

Abstract

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) often lack of time, means and competences to define methodologically their requirements for a new software development. This creates a gap between the real needs and the system requirements identified by analysists and designers. It is thereby important to provide SMEs’ stakeholders means to autonomously build and share knowledge about their organization. In this work, we present an analysis of a set of modeling frameworks, methods and modeling languages to identify these requirements in the case of such organizations. Taking into consideration unexpected limitations given by this analysis, we propose first an enrichment of the ISO19439 and ISO19440 standards to be applicable to SME typed organisations and second a requirements elicitation and validation process that is compliant with this new framework.